Example sentences of "law do [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was supposed to be suffering from a nervous breakdown , but that could be because the law did n't want anybody talking to her . |
| 2 | The law did not forget her . |
| 3 | No less hierocratic than Pecham , Winchelsey eagerly supported the king with clerical taxes when the realm was in danger and when papal decree or canon law did not prevent it ; in 1295 and late in 1297 he evinced an almost unseemly — and not widely shared — enthusiasm to assist the king with clerical subsidies , but much of his tenure is remembered rather for his resistance to the crown 's efforts to tax the clergy . |
| 4 | The law did not specify which court should try most specific offences . |
| 5 | The charges of gross embezzlement and abuse of power carried a maximum sentence of 20 years ' imprisonment , but Zhivkov , aged 79 , looked unlikely to suffer this fate since Bulgarian law did not permit anyone over 80 to be sent to prison . |
| 6 | But in their place , Law did not fill his shadow cabinet with assertive businessmen . |
| 7 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
| 8 | Pragmatism as a conception of law does not stipulate which of these various visions of good community are sound or attractive . |
| 9 | You , however , are his daughter and the law does not forget you . ’ |
| 10 | I told you that the law does not forget you . |
| 11 | We are already too stretched , and the law does not give us automatic ex access to time off for training , but we have got to ask , and we should commit the G M B to lobby for an extension of existing laws , and to lobby for various E C funds , and then we can begin to make a real impact on the environment . |
| 12 | WE READ of ‘ male rape ’ but the law does not recognise it as such . |
| 13 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 14 | Remember , the law does not allow you to carry anything which can be described as an ‘ offensive weapon ’ such as a sharpened comb or a knife . |
| 15 | The law does not allow you to give away substantial sums of money , for example to a relative or a charity , prior to coming into care in order to pay a lower charge for your accommodation . |
| 16 | The law does not allow us to sell alcohol to persons under 18 years of age . |
| 17 | So , it is far safer for the child in your car if , even though the law does not require it , rear seat belts or restraints are specially installed into cars where they have not been automatically fitted from new . |
| 18 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 19 | That is a mandatory duty imposed upon the justices and one that the law does not permit them to relinquish , albeit the parties appearing before them are in agreement as to the order that shall be made . |
| 20 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 21 | In particular , international law does not define what is to be understood by a ‘ genuine link . ’ |
| 22 | Er and what the law says is if you change your mind I 'm afraid the law does n't entitle you to anything at all . |
| 23 | The law does n't make it that easy , quite apart from making you prove her infidelity ( she may deny it ) . |
| 24 | The law does n't protect you . |
| 25 | A Benefits Agency spokesman said : ‘ The law does n't allow us any room to move . ’ |